Quadratic forms on hermitian matrices
Speaker:
Jon Yard, Microsoft Research, University of Waterloo, Perimeter Institute
Date and Time:
Thursday, August 25, 2016 - 9:30am to 10:30am
Abstract:
The space of quadratic forms on hermitian matrices carries a natural representation of the unitary group. In this talk I will describe aspects of the decomposition into irreducibles of this representation and of its restrictions to the Heisenberg and generalized Clifford groups.
